The much-loved British actor and new Australian citizen, Miriam Margolyes, will deliver the keynote address on the opening night of the inaugural Newcastle Writers Festival on Friday, April 5, at the University of Newcastle’s Conservatorium of Music.

The first chapter of what organisers expect to be an annual success story will be written in April when more than 50 Australian writers participate in the inaugural Newcastle Writers Festival. Many topics and literary genres, including crime, climate change, horror, romance, poetry and history, will be explored by some of this country’s best-known writers in a diverse range of mostly free events.

Have you seen that local blogger Pink Patent Mary Janes was at Newcastle Writers Festival launch last week and here is here thoughts about the upcoming event.